Big groups can change perspective of a cruise

I wood give the cruise line a 5. This is the 1st time I have been on a ship that had a huge group on it, and for me it kind of rained my cruise. Let me mention that this was the 1st time my teen children have been on a cruise. When I went to book excursions on line everything my children had choose was booked. I finally talked to a cruise agent who told me to try once we were on board, it was at this point I found out we had a group of over 2500 on board, they had booked the excursions we had wanted, ( Several of the people from that group during that week said that they had about 3000 on board). The people at the excursions desk showed me other options but they didn't really compare to what we had chosen, then they told me that they were working on getting more excursions to where we wanted to go, if we wanted to be put on a waiting lisr.( a little stressful as it was uncertain and we had an excursions that we wanted to go on the next day.They were pretty confident that they would be able to get us booked, so we wait listed. After dinner we found out we had gotten our 1st choice, Yeah! The next day we had a 8am excursions time, it was very chaotic, and way to many people., Once we got into Paradise Island (lucky for us the place is huge and the group dispersed) the rest of the excursion went well, except for the fact we lost about 45 mins. To an hour because of boarding to get to Paradise  Island,  and we were had already lost an hour due to the ship getting to port late. They weren't able to get us our 1st choice for the 2nd excursion, but we were happy with the recommendation. On the 3rd excursion we were suppose to be on a wait list bit still hadnt heard anything by mis day the day before so we checked on it and were told theu didn't see us on the lisr, the excursion desk apologised and wirhin 15 minutes got us in. Thebig group seemed to have all the reservation for the comedy club, which we couldn't get into until the last night, when they finally put the acts in the main theatre. I will definitely ask next time. The grouo was EVERYWHERE and I think it took away from one of the reasons I like cruises,  and that is to meet a diverse group of people. The group was clickie and had a lot of team activities to do. I think that there might have been more families on board if the space wasn't taken up by this big group.I has looked forward to my children meeting other children and making lasting friendships. I will definitely ask of there is going to be a big group next time I book a cruise, as I will change my ship if there is. The staff and FOOD was amazing, as usual.